Word: frilled
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...stands at $4.5 billion, and a few cost-conscious Congressmen insist that the U.S., rather than pay that price, ought to withdraw entirely from the SST race. Asks Wisconsin's Demo cratic Senator William Proxmire: "Is this the time to spend federal money on this jet-set frill...
...sale coat at $20 now wants a $50 coat," says Winston-Salem, N.C., Store Manager Fred Moser. President Edwin K. Hoffman of Cleveland's Higbee Co. finds that he is dealing with "a more sophisticated public. They know what they want, and they want the best." The frill kick embarrassed the usually knowledgeable marketing experts at Chevrolet this fall. They recommended dropping two extra-cost sports models from the Chevy II line; but the customers kept demanding the extras, and they had to be slipped back quickly into the lineup. Quality and luxury were in demand in homebuilding...
Religious anti-intellectualism spilled over into education. The self-made man and the dirt farmer alike were suspicious of knowledge that could not be put to immediate practical advantage. They considered higher education a frill. Unlike their counterparts in Europe, American men deserted teaching in droves for occupations that were considered more manly...
...mathematical concepts to problems in the sciences are as common as parietal misadventures--and potentially no less dipterous. Only examing the practical consequences of various models can the scientist ultimately select the most satisfactory one. Similarly, in defending the pursuit of mathematics against the charge that it is a "frill," or pay-chosis-inducing, or, for some other reason, unsuitable for study, it champions must marshal evidence that conforms to pragmatic conceptions of proof...
...perhaps the High Church frill...